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Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's K-4 500 metres

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Women's canoe sprint K-4 500 metres
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
VenueEton Dorney
Date6 to 8 August
Competitors44 from 11 nations
Winning time1:30.827
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gabriella Szabó
Danuta Kozák
Katalin Kovács
Krisztina Fazekas Zur
 Hungary
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Carolin Leonhardt
Franziska Weber
Katrin Wagner-Augustin
Tina Dietze
 Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Iryna Pamialova
Nadzeya Papok
Volha Khudzenka
Maryna Pautaran
 Belarus
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The women's canoe sprint K-4 500 metres competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place between 6 and 8 August at Eton Dorney.[1]

Gabriella Szabó, Danuta Kozák, Katalin Kovács and Krisztina Fazekas Zur, representing Hungary, won the gold medal. Germany's team won silver and Belarus took the bronze.

Competition format

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The competition comprised three heats, a semi-finals, and a final. The first boat and second-best in each heat qualified for the final, with the remainder going to the semi-final where the top five boats then qualified for the final.[2]

Schedule

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All times are British Summer Time (UTC+01:00)

Date Time Round
Monday 6 August 2012 10:39
11:51
Heats
Semi-finals
Wednesday 8 August 2012 10:44 Finals

Results

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Heats

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The first boat from each heat and the fastest runner-up qualified for the final, with the remainder going to the semi-finals.

Heat 1

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Rank Canoer Country Time Notes
1 Gabriella Szabó
Danuta Kozák
Katalin Kovács
Krisztina Fazekas Zur
 Hungary 1:35.769 Q
2 Jess Walker
Rachel Cawthorn
Angela Hannah
Louisa Sawers
 Great Britain 1:37.355
3 Marie Delattre-Demory
Joanne Mayer
Sarah Guyot
Gabrielle Tuleu
 France 1:40.022
4 Yu Lamei
Li Zhangli
Ren Wenjun
Liu Haiping
 China 1:40.661
5 Antonia Horvat-Panda
Antonija Nađ
Renata Major-Kubik
Marta Tibor
 Serbia 1:40.756
6 Rach Lovell
Hannah Davis
Jo Brigden-Jones
Lyndsie Fogarty
 Australia 1:41.794

Heat 2

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Rank Canoer Country Time Notes
1 Carolin Leonhardt
Franziska Weber
Katrin Wagner-Augustin
Tina Dietze
 Germany 1:31.633 Q
2 Teresa Portela
Joana Vasconcelos
Beatriz Gomes
Helena Rodrigues
 Portugal 1:32.785 Q
3 Iryna Pamialova
Nadzeya Papok
Volha Khudzenka
Maryna Pautaran
 Belarus 1:33.676
4 Yuliana Salakhova
Vera Sobetova
Natalia Podolskaya
Yulia Kachalova
 Russia 1:33.680
5 Marta Walczykiewicz
Aneta Konieczna
Karolina Naja
Beata Mikołajczyk
 Poland 1:35.843

Semifinal

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The top five boats qualified for the final.

Rank Canoer Country Time Notes
1 Marta Walczykiewicz
Aneta Konieczna
Karolina Naja
Beata Mikołajczyk
 Poland 1:30.338 Q, WB
2 Iryna Pamialova
Nadzeya Papok
Volha Khudzenka
Maryna Pautaran
 Belarus 1:30.883 Q
3 Yuliana Salakhova
Vera Sobetova
Natalia Podolskaya
Yulia Kachalova
 Russia 1:31.824 Q
4 Jess Walker
Rachel Cawthorn
Angela Hannah
Louisa Sawers
 Great Britain 1:32.550 Q
5 Marie Delattre-Demory
Joanne Mayer
Sarah Guyot
Gabrielle Tuleu
 France 1:33.303 Q
6 Rach Lovell
Hannah Davis
Jo Brigden-Jones
Lyndsie Fogarty
 Australia 1:33.671
7 Antonia Horvat-Panda
Antonija Nađ
Renata Major-Kubik
Marta Tibor
 Serbia 1:33.823
8 Yu Lamei
Li Zhangli
Ren Wenjun
Liu Haiping
 China 1:34.004

Final

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Rank Canoer Country Time
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gabriella Szabó
Danuta Kozák
Katalin Kovács
Krisztina Fazekas Zur
 Hungary 1:30.827
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Carolin Leonhardt
Franziska Weber
Katrin Wagner-Augustin
Tina Dietze
 Germany 1:31.298
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Iryna Pamialova
Nadzeya Papok
Volha Khudzenka
Maryna Pautaran
 Belarus 1:31.400
4 Marta Walczykiewicz
Aneta Konieczna
Karolina Naja
Beata Mikołajczyk
 Poland 1:31.607
5 Jess Walker
Rachel Cawthorn
Angela Hannah
Louisa Sawers
 Great Britain 1:33.055
6 Teresa Portela
Joana Vasconcelos
Beatriz Gomes
Helena Rodrigues
 Portugal 1:33.453
7 Yuliana Salakhova
Vera Sobetova
Natalia Podolskaya
Yulia Kachalova
 Russia 1:33.459
8 Marie Delattre-Demory
Joanne Mayer
Sarah Guyot
Gabrielle Tuleu
 France 1:35.299

After winning three straight Olympic silvers in this event, Kovacs finally won her gold, beating out the German team led by Wagner-Augustin, who had won three straight Olympic golds in this event.

References

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  1. ^ "Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics". Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
  2. ^ "Format Competition – Sprint". Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2012.